Chapter Summaries

Wang Ping learned to perceive time and devil qi as properties within the universal rules, raising his Heaven Stealing Talisman compatibility as he overwhelmed the Rebels around Outer Realm Star. After surviving the Heavenly Way’s probes, he erased a Fifth Realm Star God’s hatred and attack, leaving Daoist Gray to recognize that Wang Ping could use the Five Elements Yin Yang Rules to glimpse Outer Realm energy.

• Wei Ling attacked Wang Ping with her river of time, but he studied its connection to the Wood Spirit Rules and used the Heaven Stealing Talisman to extinguish much of it.
• Wang Ping observed the mirrored rule network of devil qi, then formed transfer networks around Outer Realm Star while the Rebels tried to block his aura.
• Wang Ping collapsed Outer Realm Star’s Destruction Rule formation, killing the three hundred Fourth Realm Star Gods maintaining it, and concealed himself from the Heavenly Way’s probes inside his Wood Spirit World.
• Wang Ping’s Heaven Stealing Talisman compatibility rose to (39/100), while the destruction of the formation unleashed uncontrollable dark turbulence around Outer Realm Star.
• A young Fifth Realm Star God launched a devil-qi sword attack, but Wang Ping used the Five Elements Yin Yang Rules to define his state and make his rage and attack vanish.
• Daoist Gray recognized that Wang Ping had used the Five Elements Yin Yang Rules to glimpse the rules of Outer Realm energy.

Wang Ping gained a new Wood Spirit ability as Wei Ling and the Rebel Star Gods summoned a chaotic Outer Realm lifeform. True Monarch Bai Yan and Xuanqing arrived and combined their powers to contain it, then used its karma to examine every living being in the Star Sea.

• Wang Ping returned the sleeping disciples to the Fourth Realm cultivators and killed a young Star God who tried to resist, raising the Heaven Stealing Talisman's progress to 40/100.
• Wang Ping gained a Wood Spirit rune and learned to observe and interfere with other cultivators' spell rules, but chose to keep the Rebels alive for their remaining use.
• Wei Ling and the Star Gods destabilized the Star Sea's rules and summoned a massive, twisted Outer Realm contaminant from the chaotic spirituality.
• Wang Ping resisted the chaotic devilish qi as the contaminant broke free, while Zhu Wu, Zang Yi, and the others deployed defensive formations.
• True Monarch Bai Yan and Xuanqing arrived and joined their powers into a Taiji formation that illuminated the Star Sea and examined the contaminant's karma.
• The formation's light scanned Wang Ping and the other beings in the Star Sea as Xuanqing's group investigated their karmic ties.

Wang Ping and the Two Sects of Heavenly Gates suppressed an Outer Realm monster, but a new incursion and Lieyang’s intervention halted their assault on the Outer Realm Star. Wang Ping returned to Jupiter with the conflict unresolved, then discussed the battle and its hidden players with Yulian.

• Bai Yan and Xuanqing’s formations trapped the Outer Realm monster, and Wang Ping erased its life force while the Demon Race True Lords guarded the area.
• Gan Xi’s power froze time and space as Wei Ling’s citizens sacrificed through faith spirituality to open a rift containing another twisted monster.
• A bronze-scaled claw pinned down the Yin-Yang Twin Fish Diagram, but the Dragon Lord’s roar closed the rift before Lieyang arrived and demanded that the fighting end.
• The Outer Realm demonic qi dissipated, Wei Ling and Gan Xi vanished, and Lieyang left after reminding Wang Ping of the favor he owed.
• Wang Ping returned to the Nine Profound Mountain Dojo on Jupiter and recounted the battle to Yulian, who warned him about Bai Yan and questioned the prevalence of Wood Spirit traits in Star God cores.

Wang Ping tested the Heaven Stealing Talisman's ability to steal spell karma while Yulian worked on stories for the believers. Meanwhile, the Dao Palace Coalition began occupying the Outer Realm Star, and Li Miaolin and Zhi Gong secured neighboring territories for their sects.

• Yulian told Wang Ping she might compile a new mythology, and he advised her not to record matters involving the other five sects.
• Wang Ping tested the Heaven Stealing Talisman and used it to steal Yulian's spell karma, making her Ice Spike Technique appear in his hand.
• Li Miaolin cleansed much of Yun Song's Physical Body contamination and advised him to return to Taiyan Sect headquarters to treat his Primordial Spirit.
• An Artifact Cultivator delivered orders for Li Miaolin and Zhi Gong to lead their Disciples in taking over neighboring territories on the Outer Realm Star.
• Luo Feng and Ke Yue piloted the flagships to the assigned territories, where Taiyan Sect markings kept Demon Race cultivators away.

Five hundred years after the Outer Realm Star war, the Inner Ring Starfield had transformed as cultivation and outer-space Ecological Zones expanded. At a gathering hosted by Liu Shuang, cultivators discussed Central Province's divisions and changing sect fortunes before a burst of light signaled someone’s advancement to the Fourth Realm.

• Over five hundred years, the Dao Palace stationed cultivators around the Outer Realm Star, the Rebels remained hidden, and Central Continent Star developed into a thriving world of flying vessels and expanded cities.
• Liu Shuang held a celebration for Zhao Lei, who had advanced to the Second Realm, and gathered friends at her Daoist Grounds.
• Leng Kezhen raised the unresolved north-south divide in Central Province, and Old Daoist Wu explained that the Third Seat conference prohibited large-scale magical battles.
• Leng Kezhen discussed rumors about the Artifact Cultivators' Fourth Realm secret art, and Zuo Liang promised to investigate its connection to Dong Can and Chen Ming.
• The cultivators reflected on True Monarch Changqing's influence and the changing fortunes of the Taiyan Sect and outer-space Ecological Zones.
• A ray of multicolored light rose from the southwest, and Daoist Yuanzheng identified it as a Yuqing Sect cultivator advancing to the Fourth Realm.

Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang investigated the rainbow light near Mozhou Road and found the Yuqing Sect guarding Daoist Yueyang’s Fourth Realm advancement. At a gathering in Liu Shuang’s Daoist grounds, Yang Rong discussed her research and urged Liu Shuang to join her in outer space, before a tremor revealed that an Earth Cave Sect cultivator was attempting to advance.

• Shen Xiaozhu sent Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang to investigate the disturbance, and they found Divine Technique Envoys monitoring the borders and the Yuqing Sect guarding the advancement site.
• Daoist Qinghe assured Leng Kezhen that no one would cause trouble, and Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang returned to Liu Shuang’s Daoist grounds, where they discussed the growing number of Fourth Realm cultivators and the possibility of settling in outer space.
• Yuan Zheng told Shen Xiaozhu that Tian Shan had entered deathly Secluded Cultivation, then challenged Old Daoist Wu over his claims about his Disciple Wang Qian’s prospects of advancing.
• Xuan Ling arrived with Yang Rong and Zhao Mingming, delivered congratulatory gifts for Liu Shuang’s junior, and invited Xia Weny to play a game.
• Yang Rong described the Dao Palace’s research into Fourth Realm cultivation among heretical sects and asked Liu Shuang to cultivate in outer space with her, but Liu Shuang declined.
• A tremor revealed that an Earth Cave Sect cultivator was attempting to advance to the Fourth Realm, and Yuan Zheng asked Old Daoist Wu whether it was Wang Qian.

Yulian visited Thousand Wood Temple and the Duantian Mountain Range, where she warned Earth Cave Sect that its formations were disturbing the Earth Veins and preventing advancement. Back on Jupiter, Wang Ping prepared to secretly stabilize True Monarch Diwen so Puppet Wang Qian could advance to the Fourth Realm without drawing the True Lords’ attention.

• Yulian gave Liu Shuang Sacred Heart Grass and urged her to travel with Yang Rong, prompting Liu Shuang to agree to leave and clear her mind.
• Yulian visited the Duantian Mountain Range, told Bai Wan that Earth Cave Sect had another Fourth Realm quota, and warned that its suppressive formations were provoking True Monarch Diwen.
• Wang Ping discussed his stalled progress in comprehending space with Yulian, who reported that Puppet Wang Qian was ready to advance once the Earth Vein power stabilized.
• Wang Ping used his Mirror Formation to inspect Wang Qian and found his Primordial Spirit strong but the reconstructed Earth Vein power dangerously unstable.
• Wang Ping and Yulian decided to secretly enter Central Continent Star and stabilize True Monarch Diwen, then erase their memories and records to avoid the other True Lords.

Wang Ping and Yulian explored a buried Demon Race palace and discovered that True Monarch Diwen lay beneath Central Continent Star, bound by formations after repairing the planet’s core. The chapter left Wang Ping realizing that the star sea’s rules rewarded Diwen with Earth Spirit aura for sustaining the repaired core.

• Wang Ping used a Transfer Talisman to enter an underground Demon Race palace and found a mural depicting Yaoxi beneath its throne.
• Wang Ping opened a hidden confinement pit and discovered Fourth Realm Demon Race remains twisted into living flesh that sustained the Earth Vein formation.
• Wang Ping followed the Earth Vein power to a vast underground region and identified a mountain-sized True Monarch Diwen as the source of its life force.
• Wang Ping approached Diwen’s body and observed the repaired planetary core of Central Continent Star, where Diwen’s Earth Vein power exchanged with the star sea’s rules.
• Wang Ping realized the rules returned double the Earth Spirit aura to Diwen, understanding why the True Lords had sought to repair Central Continent Star.

Wang Ping helped Puppet Wang Qian open Earth Vein power and advance into the Fourth Realm, then returned to Nine Profound Mountain and obscured traces of his involvement. Years later, he sensed that Zhang Xinghuai was near death and went to find him on an ice mountain.

• Wang Ping arranged for the Earth Cave Sect to remove its suppressing formations so Wang Qian could safely gather the Duantian Mountain Range’s Earth Vein power.
• With Zhi Gong, Yun Song, and Bai Wan guarding him, Wang Qian opened new Earth Vein power, formed an embryonic Earth Spirit, and advanced into the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Ping concealed the Heavenly Secrets surrounding his help, returned to Nine Profound Mountain, and erased traces of the event from deductions.
• Wang Ping granted Zhi Gong the Earth Cave Sect’s remaining Fourth Realm slot and spent the following years observing the Wood Spirit Rules as Liu Shuang and Shen Xiaozhu visited him.
• Wang Ping sensed that Zhang Xinghuai was close to death, traveled to the Snow Region through a Divine Technique Envoy, and found him gravely aged atop an ice mountain.

Wang Ping witnessed Zhang Xinghuai choose to pass away after losing hope in his efforts to bring peace to the mortal world, then learned that Daoist Tongyu had advanced to the Fourth Realm in an Asura body. Thirty years later, a Yuqing Sect disciple’s breakthrough prompted Wang Ping and the other True Lords to prepare to cleanse the contamination in Xuanqing’s body.

• Wang Ping offered Zhang Xinghuai a thousand years of life, but Zhang refused, explained his despair over the failure of his ideals, and passed away in meditation.
• Wang Ping sealed Zhang Xinghuai’s Gold Spirit Spiritual Meridian and transferred his body to Thousand Wood Temple; Yulian arranged for him to receive incense offerings in Central Province.
• Ten days later, Wang Ping sensed a major karmic event and discovered that Daoist Tongyu had advanced to the Fourth Realm in an Asura body, though he remained unconscious.
• Wang Ping protected Daoist Tongyu with talismans, while he and Yulian discussed the growing conflicts and technological development across the Star Sea.
• Thirty years later, Wang Ping learned that a Yuqing Sect disciple had advanced to the Fourth Realm, and he, Lieyang, Tiangong, and Xuanqing agreed to prepare to cleanse Xuanqing’s contamination.
• Xuanqing invited Wang Ping, Lieyang, and Tiangong to visit when his fresh fruit ripened, and Lieyang and Tiangong argued over who would make wine.

Wang Ping helped Xuanqing begin clearing the pollution entwined with his Primordial Spirit by using the Heaven Stealing Talisman to lock in Xuanqing's perfect state of consciousness. The first polluted strand emerged, revealing that removing the corruption would cost Xuanqing some of his cultivation and might take centuries.

• Yulian and Wang Ping visited Xuanqing on Yuqing Star, where Yulian eagerly ate the pan peaches Xuanqing had cultivated.
• After Tiangong and Lieyang arrived, the four agreed on their plan and went to a secluded region where Xuanqing would undergo treatment.
• Xuanqing manifested his Immortal Body and Primordial Spirit, revealing a fragile balance between his clear consciousness and Ridge Mountain's polluted consciousness.
• Wang Ping used the Heaven Stealing Talisman to record and define Xuanqing's clear state, while Lieyang established a formation to monitor them.
• Xuanqing began expelling the pollution, briefly disrupting the yang harmony across Yuqing Star before conditions returned to normal.
• A small strand of gray-gold pollution peeled away from Xuanqing's Primordial Spirit, carrying warped memories and some of his source spirituality.

Wei Ling and the Outer Realm forces prepared for the True Lords’ return while Bai Yan ignored reports of renewed rebel activity. After Wang Ping helped Xuanqing cleanse his consciousness for more than a century, Xuanqing stopped the process and raised the matter of Di Wen.

• Daoist Gray told Wei Ling that the True Lords were cleansing Xuanqing’s consciousness and might awaken True Monarch Diwen in over a hundred years, so the Outer Realm forces needed time to summon their divine temple.
• Bai Yan dismissed Daoist Lin Shuang’s report that the Rebels were making moves and told him to cultivate in seclusion.
• Wang Ping’s Heaven Stealing Talisman compatibility rose to 51/100 as he observed Xuanqing’s Golden Core Universe rules, while Yulian absorbed the surrounding spirituality.
• Wang Ping and Lieyang helped Xuanqing cleanse his consciousness for more than a hundred years, and Wang Ping’s compatibility with the Heaven Stealing Talisman reached 55/100.
• Xuanqing stopped the cleansing with a trace of contamination remaining, then asked Wang Ping about what had happened during his meditation and said they should discuss Di Wen.

Wang Ping investigated the escalating conflicts among Ecological Zones and found that Linshui Prefecture, the True Sun Sect, and Vajra Temple had driven the unrest into open war. After arranging for Yulian to cultivate safely and reviewing events across the starry sky, he received Zhi Gong and authorized the Earth Cave Sect to expand into space.

• Tiangong reported that conflicts had destroyed several small Ecological Zones, while Wang Ping discovered that disciples from the seven sects were exploiting smaller territories, especially Ao Hong of Linshui Prefecture.
• Xuanqing proposed an expanded First Seat conference with the Demon Race and the Star God Alliance, including a discussion of awakening Di Wen, and the four departed.
• Yulian entered a river channel near Nine Profound Mountain to cultivate in her true form, while Wang Ping's clone guarded her and the Sanhua cat watched over the formation.
• Wang Ping found that Linshui Prefecture's expansion had led the True Sun Sect and Vajra Temple into war, drawing in the Demon Race and spreading fighting toward Outer Realm Star.
• Wang Ping agreed to attend Quan Xing's gathering with Zhi Xin and bestowed Divine Art resources on Caiyan, Chimei, and six Earth Kui Rakshasas in his Divine Kingdom.
• Wang Ping recognized Wang Qian as the Earth Cave Sect's newly advanced Fourth Realm cultivator and told Zhi Gong to develop Ecological Zones in a designated region of the starry sky with Zi Luan's help.

Wang Ping learned that Gan Xi and Wei Ling were trying to bring the Outer Realm Destruction Rule into the Star Sea, and he arranged to send puppets to investigate the Outer Realm Border. After reflecting on his growing weariness and reaffirming his ambitions, he prepared to host the approaching First Seat conference.

• Wang Ping met Zhi Xin and Quan Xing, rejected their attempt to use the True Lords to settle their internal conflict, and reaffirmed the campaign against the Outer Realm Rebels.
• Zhi Xin reported that Gan Xi had refined the Star Sea around the Starry Sky Barrier and was merging it with the Destruction Rule; Wang Ping agreed to help Zhi Xin's disciple return to the Star God Alliance in exchange for the information.
• Wang Ping asked Quan Xing to arrange for his puppets to enter the Outer Realm Border, and Quan Xing warned that the rebels were spreading Outer Realm Devil energy cultivation among the people and cultivators.
• After two years of meditation, Wang Ping discussed his growing slackness with Star Sea and insisted that he had not abandoned his ambition to leave the Star Sea.
• Wang Ping accepted Lieyang's request to host the First Seat conference, offered incense to the two Saints, and took his seat to await the other True Lords.

Wang Ping and the True Lords prepared Central Continent Star for the awakening of True Monarch Diwen by stabilizing its spiritual energy and arranging for the Star God Alliance to guard the Star Sea. After the arrays were completed and operated for two years, the True Lords gathered above the planet, where Lieyang began the next stage of the plan.

• At the First Seat conference, the True Lords discussed unrest blamed on the Outer Realm Rebels and agreed to awaken True Monarch Diwen, while delaying further action against the Rebels unless they threatened the Star Sea.
• After the conference, Tiangong accused Lieyang of dealing unfairly with Linshui Prefecture, and their argument ended the private meeting before they arranged to fight offline.
• Lieyang asked Wang Ping to direct the Earth Cave Sect in preparing arrays, and Wang Ping organized the Mystic Sect and Heaven Sect to help stabilize Central Continent Star and its surrounding Star Sea.
• Over six months, disciples of the seven sects completed the Five Elements Yin Yang Array and established Earth Spirit Array Eyes across Central Continent Star.
• After the arrays operated steadily for two years, Wang Ping joined the True Lords above Central Continent Star, where Lieyang presented Dragon Lord's dragon pearl and ordered the Demon Race True Lords to remove the restraints on the planet's earth veins.

The Demon Race True Lords dismantled the underground array network on Central Continent Star, allowing its Five Elements Yin Yang Rules and spiritual energy to surge. The True Lords then began removing the seals that kept True Monarch Diwen asleep, with Wang Ping stabilizing Diwen’s spiritual veins during the delicate process.

• Zhu Wu, Niu Pan, Wang Xian, Bai Xin, Hou Ji, and Quan Xing used their bloodline abilities to dismantle the restrictions in the three hundred underground palaces.
• Wang Ping concealed the True Lords’ auras and meditated while the Demon Race spent half a year clearing the array network, causing Central Continent Star’s earth-element rules and spiritual energy to grow stronger.
• Lieyang, Tiangong, Bai Yan, Xuanqing, and Wang Ping helped balance the surging spiritual energy, and Daoist Tongyu showed signs of awakening.
• Lieyang asked Wang Ping to help awaken True Monarch Diwen, and the True Lords explained that they had sealed part of Diwen’s consciousness to keep him asleep while he repaired Central Continent Star.
• Xuanqing and Bai Yan removed the hidden defensive array and exposed the seals on Diwen’s spiritual veins, while Tiangong began dismantling them and Wang Ping used the 'Heaven Stealing Talisman' to stabilize Diwen’s Earth Spirit Qi.

Daoist Tongyu awakened in the Fourth Realm and learned that Wang Ping had become a True Lord, while the True Lords worked to restore True Monarch Diwen’s consciousness. After sixty years of repeated attempts, a small portion of Diwen’s main consciousness finally survived within his chaotic mind.

• Daoist Tongyu awoke at Winter Water Mountain, discovered more than a thousand years had passed, and learned that Wang Ping had attained the True Lord fruition.
• Daoist Tongyu worshipped the True Lords, accepted an ID Badge from Shen Xiaozhu, and flew to the Taiyin Sect’s stronghold, where he found ruins.
• Tiangong removed the barriers around Central Continent Star, allowing spiritual energy to reach True Monarch Diwen more freely.
• Wang Ping repeatedly used the Sky-Veiling Talisman and the seven-colored crystal to guide Diwen’s main consciousness through his chaotic memories.
• After sixty years, Wang Ping found a tiny space in Diwen’s consciousness where part of his main consciousness could survive.

Wang Ping and the True Lords freed True Monarch Diwen from Central Continent Star’s Earth Veins, and Diwen awakened with his memories largely restored. He left to enter secluded cultivation on Saturn, while Xuanqing and Wang Ping dismissed the Demon Race’s True Lords and warned them to restrain their clans.

• Bai Yan, Xuanqing, and Lieyang severed the connection between Diwen’s spiritual veins and Central Continent Star’s Earth Veins, freeing Diwen’s Primordial Spirit.
• Diwen awakened, shrank into human form, recognized Tiangong, and asked whether his memories had become distorted.
• Lieyang explained that Wang Ping was Fellow Changqing and Hui Shan had fallen, after which Diwen departed for Saturn to enter secluded cultivation.
• Wang Ping confirmed that Diwen showed no signs of madness, while Tiangong and Lieyang followed Diwen and Bai Yan departed.
• Xuanqing and Wang Ping met the six Demon Race True Lords, thanked them, and told them to return to their clans and keep them restrained.

Wang Ping found Yulian awakening her Spirit Serpent Clan memories and reviewed the damage caused by the sect conflict before instructing Zi Luan to prepare the Taiyan Sect for True Monarch Diwen’s return. The chapter ended with Diwen ordering the Earth Cave Sect to sever its ties with the Taiyan Sect and erase its history of cooperation with Wang Ping.

• Wang Ping discovered that Yulian’s Primordial Spirit had reached perfection and that her inherited Spirit Serpent Clan memories were awakening.
• Wang Ping surveyed the spreading conflict among Linshui Prefecture, the True Sun Sect, and the Vajra Temple, which had damaged Ecological Zones and trade routes.
• Wang Ping ordered Zi Luan to cut off the Taiyan Sect’s contact with the Earth Cave Sect until True Monarch Diwen declared his position.
• Wang Ping gave Zi Luan the Mask of Faces and Gold Probing Ball, and urged him to cultivate toward perfected Fourth Realm while strengthening the Taiyan Sect’s voice and resources.
• Wang Ping learned that True Monarch Diwen had ordered the Earth Cave Sect to sever ties with the Taiyan Sect, remove records of its dealings with the Taiyan Sect and Star God Alliance, and destroy Wang Ping’s temples and shrines.

Wang Ping challenged the True Lords over True Monarch Diwen’s destruction of his temples and helped arrange an investigation into the starry-sky conflict. Back at Nine Profound Mountain, he consulted his Disciples about advancement and sent Xia Weny to secluded cultivation, while Liu Shuang remained to hear his next words.

• Wang Ping confronted Lieyang and Tiangong at the First Seat conference over Diwen’s destruction of his temples, and Lieyang promised to discuss compensation with Diwen.
• Wang Ping proposed that the Dao Palace punish those who destroyed Ecological Zones, and the leaders assigned the Yuqing Sect, Taiyin Sect, Taiyan Sect, and Earth Cave Sect to investigate with Zhu Wu and Zang Yi overseeing them.
• Wang Ping summoned Shen Xiaozhu, Xia Weny, Liu Shuang, and Hu Qianqian to Nine Profound Mountain, where Hu Qianqian and Liu Shuang played their zither piece, “Spring Mountain Smile.”
• Hu Qianqian told Wang Ping that she showed signs of Core Formation, while Shen Xiaozhu said she had little chance of reaching the Fourth Realm and recommended Yun Liang instead.
• Xia Weny admitted that his cultivation had declined despite still wanting to advance, so Wang Ping ordered Hu Qianqian to take him to her dojo for secluded cultivation, then turned his attention to Liu Shuang.